The Equity and Accessibility Office was formed to address issues of systemic and institutional oppression at Dalhousie University & within the Dalhousie Student Union.

The Office strives to implement a framework of anti-oppression in all the work we do to make the DSU a more equitable and accessible place for everyone. By anti-oppression, we mean the practice of challenging all forms of oppression based on race, gender, sexuality, class, religion, immigration status, country of origin, age, physical ability, and mental health status.

These oppressions perpetuate hierarchies that benefit dominant or privileged individual persons and groups. We recognise that the Dalhousie community perpetuates oppression - both explicitly and implicitly - and this has very real and tangible consequences.